Table of Contents: The American counterfeit

Main Author:	Balkun, Mary McAleer.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.
Series:	Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. > 20th century Counterfeits and counterfeiting in literature. American literature > History and criticism. > 19th century Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. Impostors and imposture in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Passing (Identity) in literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10309853

Table of Contents:

The real, the self, and commodity culture, 1880-1930
Whitman's natural history : specimen days and the culture of authenticity
"I couldn't see no profit in it" : discourses of commoditization and authenticity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Connoisseurs and counterfeits : Edith Wharton's The house of mirth
Dressing to kill : desire, race, and authenticity in Nella Larsen's Passing
A world of wonders : collecting and the authentic self in The great Gatsby.